Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Walter WILLIAMSON (1811-1870) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lew Smedley [smedley.george@att.net] WALTER WILLIAMSON (Enos, John, Sarah, George), b. Newtown, 1-4-1811; d. Philadelphia, 12-19-1870; m. 8-10-1833, at residence of Rev. William T Brantley, Sr., Phila., to Mary Matilda Massey, b. at No. 4 Penn St, Phiia., 12- 4-1810; dau. of John Massey and Sarah Strong (m. Nov. 1, 1792),last of Pine, below 3d St., Phila. He was a physician and resided at N.E. corner of 11th & Filbert Sts., Philadelphia. From a memorial sketch of Dr. Williamson it appears that he began the study of medicine in his twentieth year,in the oHice of Benjamin Rush Erwin, M.D., and in the same year entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, becoming soon after the private pupil of William E Horner, M.D., the distinguished professor of anatomy in the University. He received his degree of doctor of medicine on the 27th of March, 1833, and entered into partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. Erwin, in Marple, Delaware county; but a year later Dr. Erwin removed to another locality, leaving Dr. Williamson with a large practice, which was still further increased by the purchase, on April 1, 1835, of the residence of Dr. Richard Gardiner, in Newtown. In 1836 the new school of Homoeopathy was brought to his attention and after a careful examination he became a convert to its doctrines. His health failing under a large and laborious practice he relinquished this, in 1838, to his former preceptor, Dr. Erwin, and removed for a brief period to Maryland; by which change his vigor was restored, and in 1839 he located as a physician in Philadelphia, where he soon acquired a large practice. He was one of the founders of the Homoeopathic Medical College, in 1848, and was chosen to fill the chair of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children; afterward that of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, besides being dean of the faculty from 1848 to 1851. In I868 he was elected president of the State Medical Society. The last labor of his life was the preparation of a history of Homoeopathy in Philadelphia. Visit The George Smedley Homepage http://smedley.lewis.home.att.net This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/bios/williamson-w.txt